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Major changes at intersection BY SARAH FAY CAMPBELL sarah@newnan.com
Under the law, beer can be sold in refillable “growler” bottles, but the brewery isn’t set up to do the rinsing and sanitizing needed to fill growlers, said Evan Scanlan, one of the brewery’s three owners. The canning is done one beer at a time, one keg at a time, and it takes a while, but it was the best way to get into packaged beer, Scanlan said. “We try to get around 100 cans a week,” he said. Whether or not they will end up doing more cans will depend on how the first few weeks of direct sales go. “We’re going to take it easy and try to ease into it,” he said. When the expansion is
The Georgia Department of Transportation has made major changes to the operation of the multiple traffic lights at the intersection of Jefferson Street (Bullsboro), Jackson Street and Clark Street (Hwy. 16 West). The timing changes took place late this week and were in place Thursday evening, said Deputy Chief Mark Cooper of the Newnan Police Department. With the changes, the three lights are essentially functioning as one intersection. When traffic heading toward downtown on Jefferson, which turns into Bullsobor, has a green light, the light will also be green at Jackson and Clark, allowing motorists heading west toward Temple Avenue to go all the way through the intersection. Motorists heading north away from downtown on Jefferson Street will then get a green light, and the light at Jackson and Clark will stay green through that cycle, as well. Finally, traffic heading into downtown on Jackson Street will get a green light. It’s hoped that the new signal timing will greatly cut down on traffic bottlenecks and blocked intersections for motorists on both sides of Jefferson Street. It will mean a longer wait, however, for those on Jackson Street, who are used to getting more frequent green cycles. The entire light cycle is estimated to
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Philip Leonard stirs the mash tun at Newnan’s Abide Brewing Company.
BY SARAH FAY CAMPBELL sarah@newnan.com
It’s a momentous time for Georgia’s craft brewers – including Newnan’s Abide Brewing Company. As of Sept. 1, Georgia’s micro-brewers have been allowed to start selling beer directly to customers. Georgia’s new law regulating craft brewers was approved in the 2017 Georgia General Assembly session, and the direct sales provision took effect Sept. 1. Unt i l recent ly, u nder Abide Brewing Company has Georgia’s three-tier sys- begun small-scale canning of tem, producers of alcohol its beer, which can now be sold directly to consumers. couldn’t sell to consumers. Instead, producers sold beer Two years ago, Senate Bill to wholesalers who then provided products to retail- 65, known as the “Georgia ers, including stores and Beer Jobs Bill” was passed. restaurants. It didn’t allow breweries to
sell beer to individual customers, but it did allow them to sell tours – and to include beer samples in those tours. Now that the new law, passed as Senate Bill 85, is in effect, breweries around the state are poised to grow. Abide, which opened in early 2015, is working on an expansion that would allow it to produce as much beer in a day as it now produces in a week. Abide recent ly bega n small scale – very small – canning of its beer, which had only been available as draft beer. The law allows breweries to sell up to a case of beer to an individual at one time. Abide is starting with the limited amount of canned beer.
Couple produces horror film for festival BY MADELINE SCHINDLER madeline@newnan.com
Female writers, directors, producers and actors will walk the “Dead Carpet” at the awards ceremony for the Women in Horror Film Festival at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Peachtree City on Sept. 21- 24. Among this year’s guests is Newnan filmmaker and producer, Maggie Hickman. Her film, “DeadThirsty,” has been nominated for Best Writing and Best Picture. The film, set in 1992, depicts a “New World Order” where civil unrest is prevalent. A group of friends host an illegal rave in an
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abandoned hospital and find themselves in the midst of a depraved force, “DeadThirsty.” Actors Sara Bess, Evan Taylor Williams, Melissa Kunnap, Jared Sullivan, Pedro Ferreira and Rich Robertson were cast for the film. Over the course of nine days, Hickman and her husband Jonathan, along with Joshua Hickman, John F. Stevens, Jason Winn and Matthew R. Zboyovski, filmed the movie in the old Piedmont Hospital located on Hospital Road in Newnan. “It was quite intense,” Maggie H ick m a n sa id . “ We f i n i shed
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With a bit of “blood” on the floor nearby, actress Sara Bess is ready to film a scene in “DeadThirsty.”
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